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Arcane Edifices and Obscure Styles
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Across
- 1. Curved seat or recess, classical and cryptic
- 2. Entrance porch before sanctuary’s threshold
- 4. Dismantle form to reveal fractured architecture
- 7. Dynastic style from English medieval line
- 9. Raw concrete hides harsh truth in urban fabric
- 11. Style embodying vanity — useless yet ostentatious
- 12. Modern city style blending fluid forms
- 13. Columned courtyard surrounds classical mysteries
- 17. Window pokes through roof’s sleeping expanse
Down
- 3. Architectural band hides roof line’s secret
- 5. Precise measurement guiding classical proportion
- 6. Illusionist’s mural deceives the architectural eye
- 8. Deposits obscure stonework in aging structures
- 10. German school where form and function unite
- 14. Ribbed ceiling spreads like a peacock’s tail
- 15. Horizontal beam crowns columnar hierarchy
- 16. Gatekeeper’s chamber guards historic entrances
- 18. Tibetan deity style imbues sacred construction
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